Cigarette-machine.



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(Application filed May 19, 1899.)

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No. 702,209. Patented June It), I902.

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CIGARETTE MACHINE.

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,No. 702,209. Pafented lune I0, 1902.

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UN TED STATES PATENT GEFICE.

HENRY c. HEcKENDORN, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNsYLv-ANIA, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES A. BONSACK, oE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGARETTE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 702,209, dated June IO, 1902.

Application filed May 19,1899. $erial No. 717,444. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that1,HENRY (J. HECKENDORN,

a citizen of .the UnitedStates, residingin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Cigarette-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of cigarette-machines in which the wrapper after being applied to the bunch of tobacco has its projecting ends tucked in order to retain the wrapper and holdthe cigarette in its proper form, my invention comprising certain combinations of parts devised with the view of simplifying and improving theope'ration of a machine of this class and the character and purpose of the various features ofmy invention being fullyset forth hereinafter and the features of novelty which I have devised being specifically claimed.

cigarette.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an elevation of the machine looking at one end of the same. Fig. 2 is a similar elevation looking at the opposite end'of the machine. Fig. is a rear view -that is to say, a view looking in the direction of the arrow at, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a front view. Fig. 5 is an enlargedtransverse section of part of the machine, illustrating the mechanism employed for forming, molding, and wrapping the bunch of tobacco Which constitutes a Fig. 6 is a sectional view of part of the same in a different position. Fig. 7is an enlarged view, partly in elevation and partly in longitudinal section, illustrating devices employed in eifecting the tucking of the projecting ends of the wrapper. Figs. 8 and 9 are detached views of parts of said tucking mechanism. Figs. 10 to 16, inclusive, are diagrams illustrating the successive steps in the formation ofthe'cigarette. Fig. 17 is an enlarged sectional view of the tobacco-feeding'device's, and Figs. 18 and 19 are views of certain portions of the machine not fully illustrated in the general drawings.

It may be well in the first place to describe with reference to Figs. 5 to 19 the construction and operation of those parts of the machine which act directly upon the cigarette, the filling, or the wrapper, deferring until a later portion of the specification a descripthe latter and discharge it therefrom.

.of the rollers 2and 3 therein.

tionof themechanism whereby the various movements of said parts are efiected.

Referring first toFig. 1 7,it will be observed that 1 isa hopper having'a segmental lower portion in which rotates a toothed feed-drum 2, and above and at one side of the latter is a toothed filling-drum 3, the surface of-which where it is adjacent to the surface of the feeddrum rotates in a direction the reverse of said feed-drum surface. The teeth of the two drums approach closely to each other, so that theteethofthe feed-drum will onlycarry down from the mass of tobacco abovesaid drum as much as will fill the space between the teeth. Below the filling-drum is a picker-roll 4 with projecting teeth which remove the tobacco from the toothed surface of the feed-drum. The adjacent surfaces of the feed-drum and picker-roll move in the same direction; butthe teeth of the picker-r011 move at somewhat higher speed than those of the feed-d rum, so as to engage with the masses of tobacco between The tobaccois deposited in. bulk in the hopper 1 and is in con'tact with the toothed peripheries I As the roller 2 rotates in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2,

it engages with the tobacco in the hopper and carries along with it a certain amount of the same, excess being removed from the teeth by the backward sweeping action of the teeth of the roller 3. The tobacco which is carried forward anddownward by the teeth of the roller 2 is discharged therefrom by the teeth of the picker-roll 4. drum and the picker-roll is a concave guard 5, which servesto inclose that portion of'the surface of the feed-drum between said fillingher 7, the bottom of which is closed by a swinginggate 8, which acts to drop at intervals the mass of tobacco which has accumulated in g the collecting chamber 7, the successive charges being delivered into a charging-chammo Between the fillingscent.

her 9, which has a reciprocating wall 10, acting as a pusher, whereby on the inward movement of said wall the charge of tobacco is pushed over toward the opposite fixed wall 11 of the chamber. Immediately adjacent to the inner side of said fixed wall 11 is a plunger 12, to which vertical reciprocating motion is imparted, and in the bottom 13 of the charging-chamber, in line with said plunger, is an opening 14, through which the charge ,of t0- bacco can be pushed by the plunger in its de- Before this occurs, however, a strip of paper a}, which is to form the wrapper of the cigarette, has been fed in beneath the bottom 13 of the charging-chamber and between the same and the top of a primary mold 15, which is mounted upon a rock-shaft 16, so that it can have swinging movement to the extent of a quarter-turn imparted to it. The paper is fed forward at suitable intervals over a table 17 and fixed shear-blade 18, said table 17 being pivoted to the fixed frame of the machine at 19 and being acted upon by a spring 20, contained in a socket on said fixed frame, so that it is pressed upward to an extent limited by contact of alip 21 on the frontedge of the table with the under side of the fixed shear-blade 18. A weighted strip or bar 22 bears upon the paper as it is fed forward over the table 17 and prevents said paper from' drawing backward or curling up in the intervals between the, successive feeding operations. The feeding is effected by means of a segment 23 on a rotating shaft 24, said segment having a rubber or other elastic orsemi-elastic shoe 25, which may for convenience consist simply of an ordinary rubber band stretched around the segment, as shown in Fig. 5.' A reciprocating shearblade 26 operates in conjunction with the fixed shear-blade 18 to sever the successive wrappers from the sheet of paper as the latter is fed forwardly, said blade 26 being carried by a block.27, which is pivoted to a rod 28 at the inner end of an arm 29 on a rockshaft 30, said block being acted upon by a spring 31,- interposed between the upper end of the block and a lug or bracket 32, also carried by the rod 28, so that the lower end of the shear-blade 26 is continually pressed into Contact with the front edge of the fixed shearblade 18. It will be understood, of course, that the, lower end of the reciprocating shearblade 26 is beveled and that the point of the blade is never raised above the edge of the fixed shear-blade 18. Hence there is no opportunity for the reciprocating shear-blade to move inwardly over the fixed blade, said reciprocating-blade being so much wider than the strip of paper to be cut that ample space will always be afforded for feeding said strip of paper under the reciprocating shear when the same is at the limit of its upward movement. As soon as the strip of paper has been fed forward, the primary mold 15 being in its vertical position, the tobacco which has previously been dumped into the chargingchamber is pushed forward by the pusher 10 to a positionunder the plunger-bar 12 and directly over the opening 14 in the bottom of said charging-chamber and the open topof the verticalprimary mold-15, the tobacco being prevented from falling through by resting on the interposed paper wrapper. After the tobacco is in position the shear-blade 26 descends and severs the paper, and the plunger-bar 12 is then depressed, and the charge of tobacco, together with the wrapper, is forced into the primary mold 15, pushing in advance the discharger 33, contained in said mold, which operation causes the wrapper to be folded around three sides of the chargeof tobacco, as shown in Fig. 10. The mold 15 is open at the ends, so that the ends of the wrapper can project beyond the same, and in order to retain the discharger 33 longitudinally in the mold I use one or more guidepins 34, each projecting upward from the bottom of the mold into an opening in the discharger-33, as shown, for instance, in Figs. 6 and 18. I

In order to prevent accidental movement of the discharger 33 in the mold 15, I insert in one side of the mold a friction-plug 35, (see Figs. 5 and 19,) this plug being acted'upon by a spiral spring 36, which is interposed be tween the same and a cap 37, free to slide in a hollow boss 38 on one side of the mold, a set-screw 39, adapted to a threaded opening in a cross-bar 40 on said boss, serving to adjust'the tension of the spring as desired. The plug 35 has a flange 41, which by engagement with a flange 42 at the side of the mold serves to prevent the forcing of the plug into the mold if the discharger is removed.

Upon a rock-shaft 43,parallel with the rockshaft 16, is mounted a secondary mold 44, which is in all material respects similar to the primary mold 15, differing only in the control of its discharger 33, as hereinafter described;

bring the mouths of theprimary and secondary molds into line with each other horizontally,as

shown in Fig. 6, and also to cause a wedge 45,

interposed between the two molds, to fold the wrapperacaround the fourth side of the bunch of tobacco, as illustrated in Figs. 6 and 11. The discharger 33 is now moved outwardly in the primary mold 15, so as to thrust the partially-formed cigarette therefrom andinto the secondary mold 44, thereby forming the fifth fold in the wrapper, as shown in Fig. 12. As the cigarette is being pushed into the secondary mold the discharger 33 of the latter is moved mechanically in advance ofsaid cigarette, movement of said discharger, as well as the outward'movement of the'discharger 33 of the mold 15, being effected by means of lugs upon pusher-plates 46, which are mounted, by means of a forked arm 47, upon a rockshaft 48, carried by the fixed frame of the machine, said lugs acting upon lugs 60, Fig. 18, at the ends of each discharger. After the cigarette has been deposited in the secondary mold the two molds swing back again to their vertical position, as shown in Fig. 5, and during this operation the wedge 45 forms the sixth fold in the wrapper of the cigarette and may complete the folding of the same, as shown in Fig. 13. When the secondary mold 44 is in the vertical position, the mouth of the same is immediately below the mouth of a tucker-mold 50, which is suitably mounted on the fixed frame and has a shoe or discharger 51, having a stem 52, passing through the mold-body, a friction-shoe 53in one side' of the mold bearing upon this stem and serving to retain the discharger 51 in any position to in position after adjustment. The bar 55 has depending arms 58, with jaws 59 for engaging with the projecting lugs 60 at the ends of the plunger 33 of the secondary mold,

as shown in Fig. 7, so that the upward movement of the bar 55 at the proper time will cause thesaid discharger 33 to eject the cigarette from the mold 44 and force it into the tucker-mold 50, driving back the discharger in said mold to its full extent and clamping the cigarette between the two, as shown in Fig. 14. If desired, a seventh fold may be at the same time formed in the wrapper, sufficient paper being originally provided for this purpose. In order to complete the cigarette, it is now necessary totuck in the projecting ends of thewrapper, and this is accomplished by the mechanism shown in Figs. 7, 8, and 9.

Mounted on the frame of the machine, so as to act upon each end of the cigarette-wrapper when said cigarette is in position in the tucker-mold, are two tucking-blades '61 and 62, the former for producing the primary tuck and the other for forming the final tuck. The primary tucker-bladeis mounted upon a rockshaft 63 and the final tucker upon a rockshaft 64, the primary tucker acting from below to fold in the projecting end of the wrapper, as shown in Fig. 15, and the final tucker acting from above to complete thefold, as shown in Fig. 16. The primary tucker commences to swing forward as the cigarette is being pushed from the secondary mold into i the tucker-mold, so that by the time the cigers are operated by a single reciprocating slide-bar 65, which carries duplex racks 66, one toothed side of each rack engaging with a toothed sector 67 on one of the rock-shafts 63 and the other toothed side of said rack engaging with a pinion 68, which can turn freely on the shaft 64. I Secured to or forming part of this pinion is the hub of a driving-dog 69, which is adapted to come into contact with a set-screw 70, carried by an arm 71, the hub of which is secured to the shaft 64 and has adrum 72, around which passes the upper end of a strap 73, the lowerend of said strap being connected to a spring 74, whereby the shaft 64 is normally held in position, so that movement of the slide-bar 65which causes the primary tucker-blade 61 to move from its normal position to the extreme upward position (finishing the first tuck) there is no movement of the final tucker 62, (said tucker being held by a spring 74 against a stop 75, as stated,) nor is there any movement of said final tucker on the downward movement of the slide-bar 65 on til the dog 69 in its upward movement strikes the set-screw 70 and imparts movement to the arm 71 and rock-shaft 64, so that ample time is afforded for the withdrawal of the primary tucker before the final tucker begins to act. When the tucking of the ends of the wrapper of the cigarette has been completed, the slide-bar 55 is depressed, the first effect of this movement being to cause the jaws 59 to engage with the lugs 60 of the discharger 33 of the secondary mold and withdraw said discharger from the tucker-mold or to what is termed a"clearance position, where the said tucker-mold willnot interfere with the rocking of the mold 44 back to the horizontal position. The same block 76 on the shaft 43 which carries the mold 44 also carries a trough slidebar continues its downward motion, and

said trough by the action of a pusher-bar79,

which is provided with hooked arms 80, engaging with pins 81 on the pusher-plates 46, attached to the rock-arm 47, as shown in Fig. 5. l l

Having thus described the essential work- ICC log parts of the machine, Iwill now describe v the mechanism whereby the same are operated, reference being had more particularly to Figs 1, 2, 3, and

The main driving-shaft of the machine is represented at 80, said shaft having suitable fast and loose pulleys 81 and 82 for the reception of the driving-belt and having also three sprocket-wheels 83, 84, and 85, the sprocketwheel 83 driving, by means of a chain 86, a sprocket-wheel 87 on a transverse shaft 88 at the upper portion of the machine, said shaft 94, controlled by a set-screw 95, which is adapted to a threaded lug on the fixed frame of the machine. The periphery of the friction-disk 93 is in contact with the face of the horizontal friction-disk 96 on a vertical shaft 97, which is mounted in suitable bearings and is provided with a worm 98, the latter meshing with a worm-wheel 99 on the shaft 100 of the feed-drum 2, said shaft also having a pulley 101,which by means of a belt 102 drives a pulley 103 on the shaft of the filling-drum 3. By this means very accurate regulation of the speed of the feed-drum can be effected, and the amount of tobacco delivered by said feed-drum in the intervals of time between the successive operations of the plunger 12 can thus be readily governed, whereby a cigarette of any desired size can be produced and uniformity in the product insured.

The swinging gate 8, whereby the tobacco is delivered at intervals from the dumpingchamber 7 into the charging-chamber 9, is mounted upon a rock-shaft 104, which has a pinion 105, meshing with a toothed sector 106, forming part of a lever 107, which is hung to a stud 108 on the frame and is moved in one direction by means of aspring 109 and in the opposite direction by means of a cam 110 on the shaft 24 of the upper feeding-segment 23, said shaft 24 being driven from the shaft 80 by means of a chain 111, running from the sprocket-wheel 85 to a sprocket-wheel 112 on said shaft 24, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

There is a positive let-0E of the paper from the roll 113 at the lower portion of the machine, this let-ofi being driven by a sprocketwheel 84 on the shaft 80, said sprocket-wheel,

by means of a chain 114, driving a sprocketwheel 115 on a shaft 116, which has a feeddrum 117, around which the strip of paper passes and'against which it is pressed by a weighted roll, 118, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the strip of paper then passing around a suitable guide-bar 119 on the frame and thence to the feed-table.

The reciprocation of the shear-blade 26 is eifected by a-cam 120 on the shaft 24, said cam acting on an antifriction-roller 121, carried by the arm 29, to which said shear-blade is hung. (See Fig. 5.)

The slide whereby the tobacco is pushed from the charging-chamber 9 into the path of the plunger 12 is hung to a rock-lever 122, which is actuated by a cam 123 on the shaft 80, said cam acting on a rock-arm 124, which is connected to the'rock-lever 122 by means of a rod or link 125.

The vertical reciprocating motion of the plunger 12, whereby the bunch of tobacco is forced down into the primary mold, is efiected by a cam 126 on the shaft 80, said cam acting on a rock-arm 127 on a rock-shaft 127, having other arms 127", which are connected to the plunger 12 by means of rods '-or links 128.

The rocking of the primary and secondary mold-shafts 16 and 43 is effected by a cam 129 on the shaft 80, said cam acting on an antifriction-roller on an arm 130, which is connected by a rod or link 131 to an arm 132 on the shaft 16 of the primary former, the shafts 16 and 43 being geared together by means of toothed sectors 133 and 134, as shown in Fig. 1. Each sector is acted upon by a spring 135, so disposed that as the sector approaches the limit of its movement in either direction the tendency of the spring will be to complete such movement, stops 136 and 137 on the frame of the machine arresting the movements of the sectors when the molds are in proper position to register with each other, when in the horizontal position, or with the filling-chamber and tucking-mold, respectively, when in the vertical position, the springs and stops thus insuring exact registry of the molds with each other or with the other coacting parts, even should the operating-cam become loose or worn, and therefore in itself incapable of accomplishing this result.

Vertical movement is imparted to the presser-bar 55 by means of a cam 138 on the shaft 80, said cam acting upon an antifric- Lion-roller on an arm 139, which is secured to a rock-shaft 140, having other arms 141, which are connected by rods or links 142 to said bar 55.

The bar 65, which carries the tucker-operating racks 66, is reciprocated by means of a cam 143 on the shaft 80, said cam acting on an antifriction-roller on an arm 144, which is secured to a rock-shaft 145, said rock-shaft having other arms 146, which are connected by rods or links 147 to the bar 65, as shown in Fig. 4.

i The pusher-plates 46 have in addition to the lugs 160, which act upon the lugs 60 of the discharger 33 of the secondary mold 44, other lugs 161 and 162, which act upon the lugs 60 of the discharger 33 of the primary mold 15,these lugs being shown in Fig. 5, and the movement of said pusher-plates 46, so as to effect desired movement of the dischargers 33 of the two molds when the latter occupy the horizontal position, is effected by a cam 163 on the shaft 80, said cam acting 011 an antifriction-roller on an arm 164, which is the block 150 on the shaft 16, which carries the primary mold 15, also carries a segment 151, which swings up close under the forward edge of the fixed shear-blade 18 and when the primary mold 15 is swung down into the horizontal position provides a table or support for the projected end of a sheet of paper which is intended to form-the wrapper for the next cigarette, thereby preventing said end from dropping down and becoming entangled with the mold. The segment also serves to loosely confine to the wedge45 the projecting portion of the wrapperwhich is being applied to the cigarette, as shown in Fig. 6. Thissegment 151, itwill be noticed,forms no part i of the mechanism for feeding the strip forward, its function being simply that of a support orconfiner, the feeding being effected by the rotating segment 23,in conjunction with the spring-pressed supporting-table 17, and said segment located some distance backwardly from the mold, so as to provide for the employment in advance of the feedin g device of a fixed shear-blade 18, which cooperates with the reciprocating shear-blade to cut the strip of paper independently of any action of the mold, the shear-blade being removable for sharpening or other purposes without disturbing the mold, and the molds, on the other hand, being removable without interfering with the shear-blade.

shafts, said molds are securedin position by screws or bolts, as shown by dotted lines in This removal of the molds is accom- Fig. 6. plished, therefore, without disturbing the mold-shafts, so that change in the size and character of the molds employed can be effected without any material disturbance of the machine.

By employing rock-shafts each carrying a single mold instead of employing rot'ary shafts carrying each a series of molds, as in some other machines of this class with which 'I am familiar, I am enabled to simplify the machine, and therebycheapen its cost, as well as materially adding to the ease of its maintenance in proper working order.

In Figs. 1 at I have shown a duplex machine-that is to say, a machine in which two 'claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent-= 1. The combination in a ci f larette-machine, of a mold in which a cigiette is formed,

I h To provide for the ready removal of the molds from their,

means for rocking said mold back and forth between a filling and a discharging position, and devices for feeding a strip of wrapperpaper, said feeding devices being independent of the movement of the mold, substantially as specified. i

2. The combination in a cigarette-machine, of a mold in which the cigarette is formed, means for rocking said mold back and forth between a filling and a discharging position, mechanism for feeding a strip of wrapperpaper, and shearing devices for said strip independent of the mold, substantially as specified.

3. The combination in a cigarette-machine,

of a mold in which the cigarette is formed,

with a device independent of the mold for feeding a strip of wrapper-paper, said feeding device consisting of a rotating segment having a friction-surface for acting upon and carrying forwardly the paper strip, substantially as specified. i

4. The combination of a cigarette-mold havin g a sliding discharger, a friction-plug in one side of the mold bearing upon said discharger, a spiral spring acting upon said plug and contained in a hollow boss on the side of the mold, a cap acting on said spring, and a setscrew bearing upon said cap, substantially as specified.

5. The combinationin acigarette-machine, of primary and secondary molds, and means for rocking the same backward and forward throughout a portion of a turn, whereby,when in one extreme position, they will register with each other, means for pressing a bunch of tobacco and a wrapper into the primary mold, means for folding the wrapper around the bunch as the mold swings from one position to the other, and means for pushing the partially-formed cigarette from the primary mold into the secondary mold and thereby further folding the wrapper around the cigarette,substantially as specified.

6. The combination in a cigarette-machine, of a pair of molds and means for rocking the same back and forth throughout a portion of a turn so that they will register with each other when in one extreme position, means for forcing a bunch of tobacco and a wrap peer into the primary mold when the same is in one extreme position, a wedge for folding the wrapper around the bunch of tobacco as the primary mold moves from one extreme position to the other, and means for pushing the partially wrapped bunch from the primary mold into the secondary mold and thereby still further folding the wrapper around the same, the wedge being so disposed as to further fold the wrapper around the cigarette as the secondary mold swings from its receivingposition, substantially as specified.

7. The combination in a cigarette-machine, of primary and secondary molds, means for forcing a bunch of tobacco and awrapper into ICO the primary mold, means for pushing the partially-formed cigarette from the primary mold into the secondary mold, a tucker-mold operating in conjunction with said secondary mold, and means for transferring the cigarette from said secondary mold to said tuckermold, substantially as specified.

8. Thecombination in acigarette-machine, of a primary mold, a secondary mold, means for pushing a bunch of tobacco and wrapper into said primary mold, means for pushing the partially-formed cigarette from the primary mold into the secondary mold, a tuckermold operating in conjunction with said secondary mold, means for pushing the cigarette from the secondary mold into the tuckermold, and means for ejecting the cigarette from said tucker m old, substantially as specified.

9. The combinationin acigarette-machine, of primary and secondary molds, means for pushing the bunch of tobacco and a wrapper into said primary mold, means for pushing the partially-formed cigarette from the primary mold into the secondary mold, a tuckermold acting in conjunction with said secondary mold, a dischargerin said tucker-mold, a discharger in the secondary mold, and means for operating the latter discharger, whereby the cigarette is transferred from the secondary mold to the tucker-mold, and is confined between the two dischargers while its ends are being tucked, substantially as specified.

10. The combination in a cigarettemachine, of primary and secondary molds, means for pushing the bunch of tobacco and a wrapper into said primary mold, means for pushing the partially-formed cigarette from the primary mold into the secondary mold, a tuckermold acting in conjunction with said secondary mold, a dischargerin said tucker-mold, a discharger in the secondary mold, and a slide for operating said secondary and tucker mold dischargers, said slide having a two-stage return movement whereby the discharger of the tucker-mold will not eject the cigarette until the secondary mold has moved away, substantially as specified.

11. The combination in a cigarette-machine, of a primary mold, a secondary mold, means for pushing the bunch of tobacco and wrapper into said primary mold, means for pushing the partially-formed cigarette from the primary mold into the secondary mold, a tuckermold operating in conjunction with said secondary mold, means for pushing a partiallyformed cigarette from the secondary mold into the tucker-mold, a receiving-trough carried by the secondary-mold shaft, and means for ejecting the cigarette from the tucker-mold intosaid trough, substantially as specified.

12. The combination in a cigarette-machine, of primary and secondary molds having sliding dischargers, a trough on one of the moldcarriers, a trough for receiving the finished cigarettes from said first trough, a pusherbar for moving the cigarettes along in said final trough, a pusher-plate for operating the mold-dischargers, and connections between said pusher-plate and pusher-bar, substantially as specified.

13. The combination in a cigarette-machine, of a rocking mold-shaft havinga mold thereon, wrapper-strip feeding and severing devices, and a segment mounted upon the moldshaft and serving as a support for the wrapper-strip when the mold is moved away from the supporting position, said segment being independent of the feed mechanism, substantially as specified.

14:. The combination in a cigarette-machine, of primary and final tucking-blades for the end of the wrapper, said final tucking-blade having movement around but a single axis and a lost-motion-operating device for effecting the movement of said final tucking-blade around its axis, substantially as specified.

15. The combination in a cigarette-machine, of primary and final tucking-blades for acting upon the projecting end of the wrapper, said final tucking-blade having movement around but a single axis, and gearing for connecting the shafts of the two blades, one of the elements of said gearing being a swinging dog which acts upon an arm on the shaft of the final tucking-blade throughout a portion only of its movement, substantially as specified.

16. The combin ation in a cigarette-machine, of primary and final tucking-blades for the end of the wrapper, said final tucking-blade having movement around but a single axis, gearing for connecting the shafts of said blades having as an element a swinging dog which acts upon an arm on the final tuckershaft throughout a portion only of its swing, a spring for restoring said final tucker-shaft to its normal position, and a stop for arresting said return movement, substantially as specified.

17. The combination of the primary and final tucking-blades, rock-shafts carrying the same, a pinion on the primary tucker-shaft, a second pinion having alost-motion connection with the final tucker-shaft, a duplex rack engaging with said pinions, and means for reciprocating said rack, substantially as specified.

18. The combination inacigarette-machine, of a forming-mold, a rock-shaft carrying the same, mechanism for rocking said shaft, fixed stops cooperating with a shaft element for restrict-ing the rocking movement of said shaft, and a spring tending to bring the shaft element into contact with the fixed stops at each limit of movement of the shaft, substantially as specified.

19. The combination in a cigarette-machine, of a pair of molds, each carried by a rockshaft, whereby they can rock from and toward each othez gearing for connecting said rock-shafts,mer*anism for rocking the shafts,

fixed stops cooperating with an element on I In testimony whereof I have signed my each shaft to restrict the rocking movement name to this specification in the presence of of the same, and a spring acting upon each two subscribing Witnesses.

shaft and tending to bring its stop element HENRY O. HECKENDORN. into contact with the fixed stops at each limit Witnesses:

of movement of the shaft, substantially as F. E. BEOHTOLD,

specified. J OS. H. KLEIN. 

